Researchers have discovered how a cell surface protein called Aplp1 can play a role in spreading material responsible for Parkinson's disease from cell-to-cell in the brain.

During the pathogenesis of Parkinson’s disease (PD), α-synuclein pathology may originate in peripheral organs and spread to the CNS. Using human tissue samples and multiple approaches in mouse ...

Recent studies also showed that LBDs, particularly Parkinson's disease, often initiate in ... To identify the organs where α-synuclein pathology begins, we stained the peripheral organs and ...

In the January 23 Nature Neuroscience, scientists led by Zhentao Zhang at Wuhan University, China, report that, in people with Parkinson’s and Lewy body diseases ... α-synuclein pathology can pass ...

In a recent study, talk therapy in Parkinson’s disease led to significant improvement in patients' well-being, ...

Parkinson’s disease is a neurodegenerative disorder ... Joan Bennett, a professor of plant biology and pathology at Rutgers University since 2006, who is not involved in the lawsuit, spoke ...

Past studies on mice found Lag3 binds to alpha-synuclein proteins and spreads Parkinson's disease pathology in neurons. While deleting Lag3 significantly impedes this process, it does not ...